On Jun 9 06:58, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > > > On another front, I've recently uüstreamed a patch for a Perl distribution > > > to use /proc/pid/statm because ps from Cygwin doesn't implement a switch > > > to > > > show the vmsize information. The maintainer of said distribution said he > > > was expecting a BSD ps before anything else and didn't like the Linux > > > /proc > > > interface a lot, but it seems we might want to move to a more modern ps > > > implementation (Linux ps uses /proc under the hood, AFAIK) when the > > > underlying functionality in Cygwin has that covered. > > > > Use procps? > > Jettison ps and move procps into Base? It looks like it wouldn't pull in > any new dependencies beyond libncursesw.
That requires to update procps and cygwin packages at the same time. It also replaces a ps using internal functionality with a ps which uses the /proc emulation layer, which *is* slower. What about patching Cygwin's ps to add the required functionality? SHTDI, of course... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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